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Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
Wood Products Companies Take on Global Warming (4-3-08)
PG and E Buys Carbon In California Trees (2-26-08)
Will carbon tax survive economic storm? (1-22-08)
Carbon Trading (1-1-08)
Laidlaw Energy converts old paper mill into 65MW biomass plant (2-21-08)
Green Energy Resources Signs $15 Million Sale of Woodchips to China (2-20-08)
Elk Regional Health Center implements new heating system (2-6-08)
High bids jeopardize school wood heat plan (1-31-08)
Europe may ban imports of some biofuel crops (1-15-08)
Great Southern secures new export woodchip price (2-27-08)
U.S. Department of Energy Selects First Round of Small-Scale Biorefinery Projects for Up to $114 Million in Federal Funding (1-29-08)
Oregon to get first cellulosic ethanol plant (1-28-08)
Wyo. cellulosic ethanol plant ramps up production (1-28-08)
Japan plans to support replacing petrol with wood (1-25-08)
Energy: Centre of power is on the move (1-23-08)
Global Wood Fiber Costs Reached New Highs in 2007 (1-23-08)
Wood Chips, Peak oil, and the recession (1-25-08)
Xethanol Researchers Report Significant Increases in Cellulosic Ethanol Production Rates at Test Lab (1-15-08)
GM eyes breakthrough in cellulosic ethanol (1-13-08)
Gulf Ethanol: Cellulose Efficiency Will Far Surpass Corn Based Ethanol (1-14-08)
Scientists pursuing cellulosic ethanol: DOE (1-14-08)
Biomass Gas & Electric LLC To Build Another Power Generating Plant Fueled By Waste Wood (12-21-07)
Norske Skog makes forward-looking investment in timber-based biofuel (12-21-07) 
Trash into treasure: North Dakota is fueling the development of biomass (7-1-07)
Bloomberg: Carbon tax should replace carbon trading (12-13-07)
The real cost of agrofuels
Biofuels: Another False Solution to Global Warming
Global Forest & 'Env. Justice' Groups Condemn Bali Carbon Trading Schemes (12-14-07)
Biofuels causing global warming? (12-5-07)
Scientists develop low-lignin eucalyptus trees (11-30-07)
Marubeni Sustainable Energy, Inc., a Leader in Renewable Energy, Acquires Biomass-Fueled Plant in Springfield, NH (11-29-07)
Fresh from the Woods: Fuel from the forest (11-25-07)
From liabilities to assets: Timber harvest waste is turned into biofuel (11-20-07)
PA RC&D turns attention to renewable energy (11-17-07)
Forestry companies expected to join carbon neutral initiative (11-17-07)  
Wood pallets to help power ethanol plant (11-15-07)
Chancellor (South Dakota) Ethanol Plant Converting To Wood Power (11-15-07)
Cultivating green energy from the trees (9-11-07)
Opportunities Abound to Transform Wood Waste into Savings, Extra Profit (9-1-07)
Crawford County (PA) ethanol plant still doesn't add up for experts (9-8-07)
New York's Dept. of Environmental Conservation explores forestry residues as biomass for energy (9-3-07)
NETL and USAF release feasibility study for conceptual Coal+Biomass-to-Liquids facility (8-30-07)
PA Governor Rendell Announces $154 Million Investment in 415 Growing Greener II Projects (8-22-07)
Site, timeline announced for Clearfield (PA) ethanol plant (8-17-07)
Imperium Renewables dedication of biodiesel plant draws a crowd (8-16-07)
Editorial: Don’t get hot over global warming (8-20-07)
Swedish-Michigan bioeconomy partnership announced (8-24-07)
Burning Biomass with Fossil Fuels (8-22-07)
Coal and black liquor can produce energy from papermaking (8-20-07)
Scientists tout forests as climate cure (8-28-07)
Carbon market encourages chopping forests: study (8-13-07)
Hot topic: Converting cellulose products into alternate energy (8-13-07)
Is Your Couch a Carbon Offset? (7-31-07)
NextEnergy helps bring wood-to-fuel plant to MI (7-26-07)
John Deere Biomass Harvesting System Delivers Unmatched Efficiency (6-20-07)
California biomass project gathers steam (7-21-07)
Biofuels – heroes or villains? (7-18-07)
Train to keep using wood pellets (7-17-07)
China to boost forest-based bioenergy, helps win battle against desertification (7-17-07)
By gum, it might just be a solution (7-19-07)
Human Activities Increasing Carbon Sequestration In Forests (6-14-07)
Wood-waste price war looms, B.C. told (6-21-07)
Pellet mill to reap beetles' destruction (6-13-07)
Cellulosic ethanol: the savior of the North American forestry Industry? (6-7-07)

Lumber waste a hot commodity (6-6-07)

Grand Opening held for Corinth (Maine) Wood Pellets (3-24-07)

Energy From Biomass and Waste Conference to be held in Puttsburgh

Envirepel Energy Hits 'Zero Emissions' Renewable Energy Target With Demonstration Test (5-18-07)

China's low-key jump onto biofuel bandwagon (5-23-07)
Forestry leaders debate biomass potential as nation's newest energy source (5-17-07)
Forest industry faces major changes (5-11-07)
Proposed biomass legislation would negatively affect existing timber industry, Temple-Inland spokesman says (5-11-07)
No incentives? No biomass plant (5-10-07)
Stora Enso and Neste Oil to join forces in biofuel development (3-16-07)

Chevron and Weyerhaeuser Create Biofuels Alliance (4-12-07)

GOVERNOR RENDELL ANNOUNCES $31.4 MILLION FOR CLEAN ENERGY, ALTERNATIVE FUELS DEVELOPMENT (4-10-07)
Wisconsin Conference on Utilizing Wood for Energy Set April 23-24 (4-12-07)
Trees a carbon sink (4-2-07)
Wall Street sours on ethanol producers as glut looms (3-27-07)
Forestry Prof Says Corn Ethanol Plan Is Barking Up the Wrong Tree (3-19-07)
Big Boys Must Bend For Bio Energy (3-9-07)
Shell to Offer Fuel Made From Wood Chips, Straw (3-2-07)
Lumber company makes power deal (2-15-07)
Getting more from wood (1-26-07)
Wildfire danger fuels interest in burning trees for electricity (1-22-07)
Energy Incentive Speeds Forest's Sector Progress to 100% Renewable Energy and Cleaner Air (1-19-07)
New plant to produce 6,000 gallons of biodiesel daily (1-22-07)
US BioEnergy Begins Commercial Production at Ethanol Plants (1-16-07)
PetroChina to Use Forest Bioenergy as Ethanol Feedstock Alternative (1-12-07)
Penn State Energy Institute receives funding for two biomass studies (11-14-06)
SunOpta and GreenField Ethanol Create Wood-Chip Cellulosic Ethanol Joint Venture; NY State Makes Two Wood Cellulosic Ethanol Development Awards (12-21-06)
Forestry college, partners to build pilot wood-to-ethanol plant (12-20-06)
Wärtsilä wood-fired heating plants for Stora Enso in Russia (12-27-07)
Ethanol plant idea changes approach (1-8-07)
SunOpta and GreenField Ethanol Create Cellulosic Ethanol Joint Venture (12-21-06)
Governor Pataki Announces Major Grant for Ethanol Plant (12-20-06)
New York Governor Announces $25 Million to Develop Cellulosic Ethanol Facilities (12-20-06)
Wood pellet quest (12-20-06)
First pollution-free plant opened in Siberia (Photo) (12-21-06)
Krasnoyarsk to launch pollution-free fuel production (12-20-06)
Biodiesel refinery frustrates neighbors (12-20-06)
Bioenergy, a Plus For Us or DuPont? One Man's Opinion (12-20-06)
Bioenergy Would Be Good for The Region (12-16-06)
Mascoma and Tamarack Energy Focus on Cellulosic Ethanol (12-1-06)
Ethanol maker Mascoma heads for the forests (11-29-06)
Turning forest slash into cash (10-30-06)
Ethanol From Trees? NCSU Professor Tackles Project (10-25-06)
N.H. company building largest wood pellet plant in U.S. (10-19-06)
Scientists study poplar for ethanol use (9-15-06)
Future in wood pellet furnaces (9-5-06)
Methanol prices hit record levels (8-30-06)
Energy Trust actively seeking additional biopower project proposals (8-8-06)
Tolko uses wood waste for fuel (7-25-06)

£33m wood energy plant is a Wales first (6-14-06)

Ethanol: Growth potential (6-6-06)
Grains, grasses, trees hold promise for ethanol production in Pennsylvania (6-1-06)
Pellet Fuel Potential: The Resurgence of Wood as a Heating Source (5-1-06)
ADM to build new ethanol plant in Iowa (5-10-06)
Wood pellets a growing business, wood consumer (4-18-06)
Central Hudson subsidiary buys wood-burning plant (4-14-06)
Turning old mills into biorefineries (3-28-06)
States struggle to support corn-based ethanol market (3-11-06)
Renewable energy, efficiency saving schools cash (2-21-06)
2005 Year in Review, U.S. Biomass Energy Policy (1-4-06)
Pellet demand is rising beyond expectations (1-1-06)
Look beyond wood pellets (12-22-05)
Hidden cost in wood burning: Pollution (11-14-05)
With woodchips in the burner, college cuts costs and pollution (11-27-05)
With oil at $60, ethanol isn't such a corny idea (6-28-05)
Renewables review may offer boost to waste wood sector (4-12-05)
Finland's National Forest Programme 2010 (1999)
Renewable Energy Project Proceeds in Buffalo (9-6-05)
The U.S. Pulp and Paper Industry: A Key Player in the Coming Bio-revolution (7-05)
Waste to Megawatts (4-3-05)
WOOD CHEMICALS
Wood Fuel Pellet Technologies
A history of wood chemical plants in Pennsylvania
Governor Doyle Announces $5 Million in State Budget for Bio-Based Industry Development (7-21-05)
Process Converts Small Trees into Wood Alcohol (2004)
Wood Energy Business Scheme (Wales)

Economic potential of biomass-based fuels for greenhouse gas emission mitigation

Competitiveness of Biomass-Fueled Electrical Power Plants
Price of firewood going up with fuel (11-18-04)
Laidlaw power plant to burn wood instead of natural gas (8-4-04)
Gas to Biomass Conversion at NY Plant (12-14-04)
Laidlaw Energy Group Signs Definitive Agreement for Renewable Energy Project with New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (12-10-04)
RC&D Projects on Bio-Digesters and Methane Capture; Small Diameter and Underutilized Wood; Ethanol; Biofuels; and Wind and Solar Energy (2004)
BACK TO THE FUTURE FOR WOOD AS A FUEL IN SCOTLAND (2004)
Pre-Feasibility Assessment: Small Diameter Underutilized (SDU) Wood Feedstock for a 10-Mw Co-Generation Facility at the Milltown Dam Site (2003)
Alternatives to Sustain the Wood-Fired Electricity Industry in New Hampshire (2002)
Wood for Alcohol Fuels Status of technology and cost/benefit analysis of farm forestry for bioenergy (Australia, 2002)
FEASIBILITY OF PRODUCING ETHANOL FROM BIOMASS IN NORTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA (2001)
Methanol -The Other Alcohol: A bridge to sustainable clean liquid fuel (2000)
Ethanol from Cellulose: Too Good To Be True? (2000)
Feasibility Study of A Biomass Power Plant Cofired with Natural Gas
for the Village of Angel Fire, New Mexico (2000)
District Energy Plan - Vermont (1999)
U.S. Wood Biomass for Energy and Chemicals: Possible Changes in Supply, End Uses, and Environmental Impacts (1997)
The Economics of Biomass Production in the United States (1995)
Report on Feasibility: Ethanol Plant Development in Southeast Alaska
Economic aspects of low-grade hardwood utilization (1978)
Higher gas prices a factor in rising firewood costs (10-11-04)
Firewood Costs Increase As Supply Dips (10-28-03)
Natural gas prices seen rising further (9-17-03)
The latest factory fire logs are more earth friendly (3-29-03)

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